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Patent GB-2465162-A (GB)
Title: Sporting event co-ordination and supervision system and method
Inventor: BALDWIN CHRISTOPHER JAMES
IPC: A63B71/00
Filed: 2008-11-05
Abstract: A sporting event co-ordination and supervision system comprises (a) a central computer including a data repository storing participant-specific performance data; (b) a communication network for exchanging data with participants in remote locations. The central computer computes relative performances from the stored data and performance data collected from the participants, in real time. A sporting event is set up which comprises multiple participants in a plurality of different remote locations, the participants being provided with performance data while the event is in progress. This means that the participants can track their relative performance with other participants running over different circuits or routes all over the world. The central computer preferably stores route data. Communication may be a wireless network and each participant may carry a mobile communications device, such as a PDA, mobile telephone or pace monitoring device, which may transmit positional data, perhaps using GPS or pace monitoring, personal data and environmental data. A broadcast system or website can produce a pictorial simulation of the event for spectators. Participants may input their own tracks or routes. The central computer may normalize times or adjust distances to take account of environmental conditions at different routes. Methods of organizing virtual sporting events, such as virtual races, in which runners run different routes at different locations and receive real-time feedback via mobile devices carried by the runners are also claimed.
Patent GB-2456677-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for formatting hardware trace in trace arrays
Inventor: RECKTENWALD MARTIN
IPC: G06F11/22
Filed: 2009-01-26
Abstract: A method and a system is proposed for formatting trace arrays contents obtained by capturing trace data within trace arrays using a wrap back window during compression mode within which trace data are stored circularly. Following formatting bits are used: Array Wrap Flag (AWF) bit toggling between two values at each array wrap around when wrap back window is left; Wrap Back Counter (WBC) counting the number of wrap backs within the wrap back window. And the method comprises the steps of determining the number of AWF toggles within the trace array and accordingly unwrap the trace array contents by starting with the row of the trace array contents corresponding to the toggling of AWF and determining a row within wrap back window with WBC toggling and if present unwrap wrap back window by reordering the rows of the trace array contents according to an ascending order of the value from the WBC.
Patent GB-2467529-A (GB)
Title: One-piece collapsible shelter frame
Inventor: HUGHES ANTHONY DOUGLAS
IPC: E04H1/12
Filed: 2009-01-30
Abstract: The shelter frame comprises two or more beam assemblies 2-4, each including at least two pivotally-joined beam elements 5-16 which can be arranged to form an arch, and cross-brace elements 29-32 connected to adjacent beams assemblies by sliding connections so as to enable concertina-like expansion and collapse of the shelter frame. The cross-brace elements preferably comprise one or more pairs of crossed arms, each pair of arms being pivotally connected where they cross. Pairs of cross-brace arms adjacent a beam assembly may have one arm fixed to the assembly and the other arm slidably connected to the assembly. A stop may be provided on the beam assemblies to secure the slidable cross-brace connection in place, thereby locking the beam assemblies relative to one another. Pairs of collapsible top braces 33-36 may join the adjacent beam assemblies at their apexes. Also claimed is a tent which incorporates the shelter frame.
Patent GB-2454130-A (GB)
Title: Constant power dissipation in capacitance pressure transducers
Inventor: MAIORANA PHILIP J
IPC: G01L9/12
Filed: 2007-08-09
Abstract: A system and method are described for maintaining power dissipation substantially constant across the sensor interface board of a capacitance pressure transducer. A shorted diaphragm level detector detects a shorting of the diaphragm onto one or more reference electrodes. A power dissipating resistor is placed near the oscillator that drives the capacitance detecting circuit in the capacitance pressure transducer. The resistor is switched across a power supply when the shorting is detected, causing current to flow through the resistor so that power can be added in an amount sufficient to maintain power dissipation by the oscillator substantially constant when the diaphragm shorts.
Patent GB-2467937-A (GB)
Title: Pump magnetic coupling with heating function
Inventor: SHEPHERD PAUL DAVID
IPC: F04D13/02
Filed: 2009-02-20
Abstract: A pump 110 includes an impeller 112 which is coupled to a drive shaft 116 via a magnetic coupling 118 having first and second halves 120, 122 connected to the impeller 112 and drive shaft 116 respectively, one half 120, 122 of the coupling 118 being provided with a magnetic field generating element 123, the pump 110 further includes an electrically conductive element 162 which may be located within the magnetic field generated by the coupling 118, and braking means which may prevent rotation of the electrically conductive element 162 during rotation of the drive shaft 116. The magnetic field generating element 123 may be provided on the second half 122 of the magnetic coupling 118. The electrically conductive element 162 may be an induction element controlled by a solenoid actuating means 172. The pump 110 may be part of an engine cooling system, and locating the electrically conductive element 162 in the magnetic field may heat a fluid in order to rapidly heat the engine when it is started.
Patent GB-2465438-A (GB)
Title: Pressurised water storage tank having a rubber valve
Inventor: YANG CHUNG-HSIANG
IPC: B67D7/02
Filed: 2009-02-25
Abstract: A pressurised water storage tank 10 having a rubber valve 20 includes a pressurised water storage tank 10 and a rubber valve 20. This tank 10 has a diaphragm 11, a liquid storage space 12, an air storage space 13, a liquid conduit 14, and a gas port 15. This rubber valve 20 has a central passage 21 and a flexible squeezing portion 22. The central passage 21 is able to be squeezed by the flexible squeezing portion 22. It can form a closed and blocked state. Also, this central passage 21 is able to allow an insertion of a basketball inflation needle 91 so as to form an open state (as shown in FIG 2) to pump air in.
Patent GB-2469138-A (GB)
Title: Control of a high speed brushless motor to provide constant power
Inventor: CLOTHIER ANDREW CHARLTON
IPC: H02K21/12
Filed: 2009-04-04
Abstract: A motor system (5, fig.2) comprising a single phase brushless dc motor and its control system are disclosed. The motor is suitable for operation at high speed, for example at speeds above 60,000 revolutions per minute (rpm). It is suitable for use in a vacuum cleaner. The motor includes a single winding (19, fig.3) arranged on a C-shaped core (8, fig.3) which enables a high fill factor to be achieved for the winding. A Hall position sensor is used. In operation, the winding 19 is sequentially excited and freewheeled by a conventional H-bridge drive circuit. It is disclosed that the winding is excited in advance of zero-crossings of the back-emf in the winding by an advance angle, and is freewheeled over a freewheel angle. Both the advance angle and the freewheel angle may be varied in response to changes in the speed of the motor and the excitation voltage. The variation of the advance angle and freewheel angle is stored in the drive controller (16, fig.2) as a power map. Each power map comprises a lookup table storing an advance time and a freewheel time for each of a plurality of voltage levels. Consequently, constant output power is achieved over an operating speed range spanning at least 10,000 rpm, irrespective of changes in excitation voltage, which may come from a battery.
Patent GB-2459201-A (GB)
Title: An extensible spout
Inventor: TYLER JEREMY JAMES
IPC: B65D25/44
Filed: 2009-04-20
Abstract: A removable outlet for attaching to an outlet of a container consists of a first attachment member 11, a spout 13/ 18 and a closure means 15. The first attachment member (11) is engageable at a proximal end with an outlet of the container. The spout 13/ 18 is mounted within the first attachment member 11 and is extensible from a contracted conformation (fig 1) to an extended conformation (fig 2). The closure means 15 is fitted over the distal end of the first attachment member 11 and the spout 13/ 18 to close one end of the passageway and prevent unwanted fluid egress. Preferably the distal end of the spout 13/ 18 is narrower than the proximal end. The spout may comprise a series of nested hollow cylinders or tubes having frusto-conical shape. The spout 13/ 18 may comprise a spirally wound strip. The spout 13/ 18 may be curved. The first attachment means 11 may include a threaded portion.
Patent GB-2473883-A (GB)
Title: Read head illumination system, for scanning device
Inventor: COOK GERALD PAUL
IPC: G02B5/02
Filed: 2009-09-29
Abstract: An illumination system adapted for use with a read head for a scanning device, such as that used for machine readable documents including passports has an input channel, adapted to receive light from a light source, such as LED lights 41-44, and an output channel 40. Diffusion means 45 are positioned adjacent the output channel to direct light from the input channel toward the output channel and they have a diffusion surface facing outwards toward the output channel. The diffusion surface is shaped (i.e. having a curved convex roughened reflective surface) such that the intensity of the illumination profile of the region of illumination has a minima at the centre of the region of illumination. This minima in intensity compensates for angular losses created by the imaging system used to capture an image of the object within the scanning device.
Patent GB-2473297-A (GB)
Title: Hair extension
Inventor: LEE SOUNG JUN
IPC: A41G5/00
Filed: 2009-11-03
Abstract: A hair extension to be attached to a hair comprises an extending hair portion 110 and a thread 130 connected to the extending hair portion and configured to be tied to the hair, and a ring portion 132 formed between both ends of the thread for inserting the hair, tightening, and fixing to the inserted hair. The ring portion is part of a knot having a tightenable first and second ring and further includes a first ring pulling portion which is connected to the second ring, encloses the first ring and has an end portion passing through the second ring. In use the hair is inserted and folded through the first and second rings. The use of the knot is quicker and removes the need to use expensive fixing equipment.
Patent GB-2462034-A (GB)
Title: Use of a ternary matrix as an adapter for molecular biological information, and a method to search and to visualize molecular biological information stored i
Inventor: PASSETTI FABIO
IPC: G16B45/00
Filed: 2009-11-17
Abstract: It is proposed by the present invention the use of ternary matrices as an adapter of molecular biological information for integration of the said biological information. Another exclusive aspect of the present invention consists in a method of search and visualization of molecular biological information stored in at least one database, wherein a preferred implementation of the method is made using a computer program and wherein the same may be accessed using a computer network such as the Internet.
Patent GB-704170-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to automatically operating electrical shunts
Inventor: WOLFF HERBERT WERNER
IPC: H02H9/02
Filed: 1951-04-28
Abstract: 704,170. Control of motors; controllers; electromagnetic switches; protective cut-out arrangements. BRITISH KLOCKNER SWITCHGEAR, Ltd. April 18, 1952 [April 28, 1951]. No. 10003/51. Classes 38(3) and 38(5) Relates to automatically operated shunts which may be used in conjunction with overload gear to prevent tripping in the event of transient overloads. As shown, when the main motor current carried by conductors 4 rises to a predetermined value, a shunt is connected across the overload coil 7 due to movement of a spring-biased switch arm 13 which is attracted by an auxiliary electromagnet having coil 9 and a soft iron core 10. The shunt current actually passes through the core 10 as well as a resistor 12 and the arm 13. Contacts 11, 15, are made of magnetic material so that chattering is avoided, the gradual reduction of contact resistance with increasing overload current preventing sudden changes of current in the overload coil.
Patent GB-429398-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to packing machines
IPC: B65B7/22
Filed: 1934-04-03
Abstract: 429,398. Packeting - machines. MAY, P. J., and MOLINS MACHINE CO., Ltd., 2, Evelyn Street, Deptford, London. April 3, 1934, No. 10008. [Class 94 (i)] In a machine for inserting a flap in the open end of a packet, a member engages the flap and enters the packet with the flap, means being provided to retain the flap in position whilst the element is being withdrawn from the packet. As shown in the Figures, the portion 6, to be inserted in the packet 1 is folded up and supported by the part 8 of the plunger 9. The portion 6 may be part either of a wrapper or of the slide of a slide-and-shell packet. As the plunger moves forward the portion 8 of the plunger moves the flap 6 of the wrapper towards the shell 1 and the part 10 engages the free end of the flap 6 and inserts it into the packet. The slot 12, stop 13 and spring 14 enable the parts 8 and 10 of the plunger to move relatively to each other so that as the portion 10 is withdrawn from the packet the projection 8 remains against the flap 6 and holds it in position, the projection 8 moving away from the flap when the end of the slot 12 engages stop 13, after the part 10 has been withdrawn from the shell.
Patent GB-845941-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to fasteners
Inventor: PATERSON GAVIN DYKES
IPC: E05B65/52
Filed: 1958-03-28
Abstract: 845,941. Hook fastenings. K.A.C. Ltd. Feb. 19,1959 [March 28,1958], No. 10091/58. Class 44 A fastener for securing two members together comprises an anchorage 1 adapted to be rigidly fixed to one member by rivets, &c. 2 and a hookended attachment plate 10 secured to the other member. The anchorage 1 has spaced parallel lugs 3 through which extends a pin 4 upon which is pivotally mounted a body component 5. The latter housing a slide 7 and a circular pivot post 12, the pivot post having a stud 15 eccentrically mounted in it and fitting into a slot 17 in the slide so that rotation of the pivot post causes reciprocation of the slide. The pivot post 12 extends through the body 5 and is retained axially by means of a circlip 20 fitting in a groove 19 in the latter. The portion of the post protruding through the body is bifurcated to form a pair of spaced lugs 21 between which is disposed an actuating lever 22, the lever being hinged by means of a pin 23 and an operating arm 24 being attached to the lever for easy rotation. A spring 26, retained in a recess in the body component 5 and in a recess 27 in the pivot post 12, tends to force the operating arm towards the slide member when the fastener is in the fully open or "unlocked" position, Fig. 2, and towards the anchorage when fully closed or "locked", Fig. 3, in which position the operating arm is retained by end cheeks 29 of a recess 28 (Fig. 5 not shown) formed in the boss 6.
Patent GB-446040-A (GB)
Title: An anti-waste cock
IPC: F16K21/12
Filed: 1935-04-01
Abstract: 446,040. Valves. ULDALL, P., Lallaguda, Deccan, India. April 1, 1935, No. 10104. [Class 135] An automatically closing valve opened by a pump device comprises a piston 13 raised within a sleeve 16 by depressing a handle 3 to open a ball-valve 20 in a partition 17a, drawing up the loosely fitting hollow part a carrying the valve b to allow water to pass from the inlet 4 to the outlet 6. The piston 13 is hollow and the nut 12 securing the rod 10 is perforated ; on the down-stroke a ball-valve 14 in the piston base opens to allow the water beneath it to pass to the upper side, this water passing into the supply channel by ports 27, 26 on the up-stroke.
Patent GB-671771-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to machines for harvesting turnips and like edible roots
IPC: A01D25/02
Filed: 1950-04-25
Abstract: 671,771. Root-crop harvesters. KLEINE, F., KLEINE; E., and KLEINE, L., (trading as MASCHINENFABRIK F. KLEINE). April 25, 1950 [April 26, 1949], No. 10179/50. Class 6(iii) Root crops lifted by a tool 16 pass to a spinner mounted on a horizontal shaft 2 longitudinally disposed on the machine, the movement of the roots towards the spinner being assisted by a revolving conveying device 19 which revolves about a vertical or nearly vertical axis and is spaced from-the tool 16 and from the spinner by a substantial distance. The spinner shown comprises cross arms 4 on the shaft 2, cross arms 6 on a cranked extension 3 of the shaft, and cranked supports 7 for the prongs 8, the arrangement being such that the prongs remain vertical at all times. A gear wheel on the cross arm 4 is geared to the driving shaft 10 which also drives, by gearing 20, 21, the shaft 18 of the device 19. The latter may be a cylindrical or frusto-conical body provided with longitudinal ribs, or it may be of corrugated sheet metal or of longitudinal extending bars or prongs. Laterally extending bars 17 may be fitted to the tool 16 to guide the roots thereon sideways by the spinner.
Patent GB-303701-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to pulverised fuel burners
IPC: F23D1/00
Filed: 1928-04-04
Abstract: 303,701. Yarrow, H. E. April 4, 1928. Pulverulent-fuel burners. - A pulverulent-fuel burner comprises an annular chamber B having a tangential inlet A for the fuel and its conveying air and an annular discharge aperture C bounded by sleeves D, M which may be adjusted separately by means of screwed rods E, N extending through the outer casing G. Adjustment of the sleeve M relatively to the sleeve D in addition to varying the width of the aperture C also varies the angle at which the fuel mixture is delivered into the furnace. The main air supply passes between the inner and outer casings F, G to an annulus H and then between inclined vanes J to an orifice K preferably coaxial with the aperture C. The gyratory motion imparted to the air by the vanes J may be in the opposite direction to that imparted to the fuel mixture by the tangential arrangement of the inlet A.
Patent GB-351108-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electrical power systems
IPC: H02P5/68
Filed: 1930-03-31
Abstract: 351,108. Running generators in parallel. ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES, Ltd., Bush House, Aldwych, London.-(Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. ; East Pittsburg, U.S.A.) March 31, 1930, No. 10207. [Class 38 (iv).] Motors 10, 11 driving individual rolls of a rolling- mill are fed in parallel from Ward-Leonard generators 21, 22 and each has a separately excited shunt field 14, 15, a cumulative compound field 16, 17 energized in accordance with the current in the associated armature and a differential compound field 18, 19 energized in accordance with the armature current of the other motor. As shown in the Figure, the compound fields are fed from series exciters 101, 104 although in one modification one of the compound fields of each motor is a true series field, whilst in another modification four series exciters are used, one for each field winding. A master controller 113 determines the direction of the excitation of the generators and also the connection of the exciters to the compound fields of the motors. Three stages of speed control are obtained, the first with weak generator field and strong motor shunt field, then with full generator field, and finally with reduced motor field. The generators have separately excited fields 26, 27 and to preserve the desired division of load, each has a cumulative compound field 28, 29 energized by the other machine and a differential compound field 30, 31 energized by its own armature current.
Patent GB-1109158-A (GB)
Title: Spark ignition systems
Inventor: GILBERT BRIAN
IPC: F02P3/08
Filed: 1965-03-11
Abstract: 1,109,158. Ignition systems. JOSEPH LUCAS (INDUSTRIES) Ltd. March 3, 1966 [March 11, 1965], No.10331/65. Heading F1B. A spark ignition system includes first and second terminals 11, 12 which in use are connected to a D. C. source, an inductor 17 connected in series circuit between the terminals, the series circuit including switch means 16 which is turned on and off in timed relationship with the engine and which when closed permits energy to be stored in the inductor and when open allows the energy stored in the inductor to be transferred to a capacitor Z1 and means operable when the capacitor is charged for firing a controlled rectifier 23 to provide a discharge path for the capacitor, the discharge of the capacitor through the controlled rectifier producing a spark and the controlled rectifier being connected in the circuit in such a manner that when the switch means is closed the controlled rectifier is reverse biased by the D.C. source.
Patent GB-997154-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in front wall structures of paper machine headboxes
IPC: D21F1/02
Filed: 1964-03-12
Abstract: 997, 154. Head boxes for paper-making machines. VALMET OY. March 12, 1964 [Oct. 22,1963], No. 10417/64. Heading D2A. The front wall of a paper machine headbox comprises an upper beam 1 securely fixed to the side walls 5 of the headbox and a lower beam 2 separate from but mounted beneath the beam 1 and supported from horizontal adjustment in guide members situated at its ends. The lower beam is supported against horizontal deflection due to the pressure in the headbox at two or more points and is connected to the top beam by at least one supporting arm which is located so that at least one of the support points lies between the ends of the beam. The arrangement is designed to minimise bending and deflection of the beam. In a preferred arrangement the lower beam is supported by two arms 3 each located at about two-ninths of the length of the beam from its ends. The upper lip structure 8 of the machine slice is mounted for vertical adjustment on the beam 2. Horizontal adjustment of the lip structure 8 is achieved by transfer mechanisms 4 mounted on the arms 3 and interconnected for concurrent action by a shaft 7.
Patent GB-1167455-A (GB)
Title: Optical Resolution of Methionine Amide
IPC: C07C/
Filed: 1968-03-04
Abstract: 1,167,455. Optical resolution of methionine amide. STAMICARBON N.V. 4 March, 1968 [9 March, 1967], No. 10456/68. Heading C2C. Optically active methionine amide or a compound thereof are prepared by converting either in whole or in part a mixture of L- and D-methionine amide into a salt of methionine amide and optically active 2-pyrrolidone-5- carboxylic acid and separating from the resulting mixture a part mainly consisting of one of the diastereo-isomers of the said salt and if desired splitting the said salt to receive optically active methionine amide. The salt formation may be carried out in a liquid medium, e.g. ethanol, isopropanol or mixtures thereof in which the said diastereo-isomers are differentially soluble. If only a part of the methionine amide is converted to a salt the formed salt can be isolated by mixing with a liquid, e.g. benzene, in which it is insoluble but in which one of the diastereo-isomers precipitates preferentially. D- and L-2-pyrrolidones- 5-carboxylic salts of optically active methionine amide are claimed per se.